Tea Saponin can destroy red blood cells and produce hemolysis. The hemolytic activity of
Tea Saponin was measured by the hemolytic index, the maximum dilution of hemolysis. The hemolytic activity of Tea Saponin was lower than that of Tea plum Saponin, but comparable to that of Tea Saponin and Mountain Tea Saponin. Tea Saponin produced hemolysis only in red blood cells (including nucleated fish blood, chicken blood, and non-nucleated human blood), but had no effect on white blood cells. Thus, Tea Saponin has toxic effects on fish, but not on shrimp. The hemolysis mechanism is believed to be caused by Tea Saponin causing changes in the permeability of the cholesterol-containing cell membrane, which initially destroys the cell membrane, then leads to cytoplasmic extravasation, and eventually leads to the disintegration of the entire red blood cell. Tea Saponin must come into contact with blood for its solubility to occur, so it is non-toxic when taken orally in humans and animals.
Tea Saponin as pesticide wetting agents can improve the wetting properties of the wettable powder and the suspension rate, as a kind of natural non-ionic surface active agent, join the pesticide use, obviously improve the pesticide solution of the physical and chemical properties, improve the potion on the target volume, to contribute to give full play to the pesticide efficacy, therefore, the use effect can be improved.
Tea Saponin is an excellent additive for water agent or soluble powder pesticide, which can improve the physical properties of pesticide, improve the adhesion of liquid in biological or plant body surface, and play a synergistic role for pesticide. Tea Saponin can degrade automatically and is non-toxic. In the separation process, it will not affect the chemical properties of pesticides, which is conducive to the storage of pesticides. Tea Saponin has been widely used in herbicide glyphosate and insecticide, especially in glyphosate, giving full play to the excellent performance of glyphosate, improving its adhesion and hygroscopicity on plants, improving the penetration of the drug solution, and also improving the biological activity of glyphosate due to its good biological activity.
Tea Saponin has a good biological activity, and Tea Saponin has a synergistic effect on the control of aphis rhomboides, diamondback moth and citrus panthera mite when mixed with the insecticide monophora, malathion, methomyl, kungjuthrin, nisolan, tetracarone, nicotine, dimethoate and rotenone, respectively.
Tea Saponin has certain gastric toxicity and strong avoidance effect on cabbage, and the higher the concentration is, the stronger the avoidance effect is, which has certain effect on preventing cabbage from harmful to cabbage. It is used as an insecticide on garden flowers to control underground pests, such as ground tigers, nematodes and other pests. It also has good poison effect on snail, snail and oncomelania snail which harm rice.
